Compare Sherman’s “treatment” of southern civilians to Jackson’s treatment of Barbara Fritchie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Fritchie
Chivalry was [and is] not dead in the hearts of Southern men.
(*sigh*) You realize that the whole Barbara Fritchie poem is a myth, don't you?
Another incident I read about in Shelby Foote's narrative history concerns General "Spoons" Butler's occupation of New Orleans.
After the occupation began there was a civilian protest where the United States flag was burned. Days later a civilian wearing a piece of the burned flag in his coat button hole was arrested by US military police.
He was tried by a military court and executed.
Terrorism or just plain tyranny?
You are aware, aren’t you, that your link pretty much says that it never happened?